Missing teen kept as sex slave for 10 years and 'forced to have child with captor'

Missing teen kept as sex slave for 10 years and 'forced to have child with captor'

A WOMAN who went missing aged 15 has told police how she was kept as a slave by her mum's ex boyfriend where he sexually assaulted her, forced her to marry him and have a child with him over a ten year spell.

Police have arrested Isidro Garcia, 41, on suspicion of kidnapping to rape as well as false imprisonment and lewd acts with a child.

The 25-year-old woman, who has not been named, made contact with authorities on Monday with police saying she found her sister through Facebook.

A police statement said: "Even with the opportunity to escape, after years of physical and mental abuse, the victim saw no way out of her situation and lived a life with Garcia under sustained physical and mental abuse."

Police said the girl had entered the US illegally from Mexico in February 2004 to join her family.

It was said she spoke no English and lived in Santa Ana, about 30 miles from Los Angeles.

Corporal Anthony Bertagna of Santa Ana police described how Garcia was her mum's boyfriend at the time.

One afternoon in August 2004, Garcia offered the girl five pills for her headache and she told police that she woke up locked in his garage in Bell Gardens, California.